Leaflet from the period of the plebiscite in Upper Silesia in 1921

Leaflet from the period of the 1921 plebiscite in Upper Silesia.

Double-sided. Bilingual. Format 32 x 24 cm. Original printing. Leaflet addressed to Silesians. It calls for calm and a cessation of preparations for another anti-German uprising. Plebiscite in Upper Silesia (German: Volksabstimmung in Oberschlesien) - one of two plebiscites concerning the ethnic Polish-German borderland, which were designated in 1919 in the Versailles peace treaty that ended World War I. The plebiscite was held on March 20, 1921, and was preceded by two uprisings by the Upper Silesian population demanding that the region be annexed to Poland.